By directly, do you mean explicit use of EXEC? There's an operand to distinguish CLIST from REXX.
-- Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz http://mason.gmu.edu/~smetz3 ________________________________________ From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List <[email protected]> on behalf of Skip Robinson <[email protected]> Sent: Wednesday, September 29, 2021 12:42 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: PL/I vs. JCL How about invoking a module directly? No SYSPROC is involved here. EX 'dsn(member)' I have no way to test it at the moment. On Wed, Sep 29, 2021 at 7:22 AM Seymour J Metz <[email protected]> wrote: > TSO SYSPROC is the only case I know of where /* REXX */ is required. > > > -- > Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz > http://mason.gmu.edu/~smetz3 > > ________________________________________ > From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [[email protected]] on behalf > of Phil Smith III [[email protected]] > Sent: Wednesday, September 29, 2021 10:06 AM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: PL/I vs. JCL > > Bob Bridges wrote: > > >Purely by the way, but I've never really understood why so many REXX > modules I see start like this: > > > /* REXX */ > > <snip> > > > > I think (a) it's documented that way in some places; (b) Some environments > may even require that; (c) that's how some/many examples have it; and (d) > it's bizarre, because these all work in TSO: > > /* Rexx */ > /* This rexx program. */ > > /* This is (rexx) */ > > /* This is not(rexx)s */ > > /* Thisisrexxyep */ > > but > > /* This is a program */ > > does not. So something is parsing the entire first line, looking for the > leading "/*" and four letters "rexx" in a row, case-insensitive. Bizarre. > > > > Having grown up in VM, I'd never even thought about it, other than knowing > that I needed the word "rexx" in the first line in TSO. (On VM, just the > leading "/*" is sufficient.) > > -- Skip Robinson 323-715-0595 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
